Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been rebranded into an
'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door (A Greggs pie shop
separates the two). The TM store seemed to me, to be being run down.
However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a fully fledged EE
store, identically shop fitted to the ex Orange store 15 feet away.
Are they really going to keep both !!
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>
> Are they really going to keep both !!
Greggs inside Festival Place is likely to close, as they have 2 other
stores, one just up Wote Street, the other at the side of where
Woolworths used to be, in the "open air" section of festival place.
I wouldn't be surprised to see the EE stores grow and merge at that point.
It would be the biggest mobile store in town.
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:38:03 +0000, Mark Carver wrote:
> ***'s going on ?
>
> Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been rebranded
> into an 'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door (A Greggs
> pie shop separates the two). The TM store seemed to me, to be being run
> down.
>
> However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a fully fledged
> EE store, identically shop fitted to the ex Orange store 15 feet away.
>
> Are they really going to keep both !!
"Bob Eager" <news0001@eager.cx> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:38:03 +0000, Mark Carver wrote:
>
>> ***'s going on ?
>>
>> Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been rebranded
>> into an 'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door (A Greggs
>> pie shop separates the two). The TM store seemed to me, to be being run
>> down.
>>
>> However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a fully fledged
>> EE store, identically shop fitted to the ex Orange store 15 feet away.
>>
>> Are they really going to keep both !!
>
> Watch out Greggs!
>
>
>
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I was in Burnley yesterday.
On the main street there was a Gregg's, another chain on the other side of
the road and a very busy "Pound Bakeshop". I got a slice, a pie and
sandwich for £2. The same in Gregg's (albeit slightly larger) would have
been nearer £5.
In message <DJOdnW7uBJzCgAzNnZ2dnUVZ7rmdnZ2d@bt.com>, R. Mark Clayton
<nospamclayton@btinternet.com> writing at 12:45:42 in his/her local time
opines:-
>I was in Burnley yesterday.
>
>On the main street there was a Gregg's, another chain on the other side of
>the road and a very busy "Pound Bakeshop". I got a slice, a pie and
>sandwich for £2. The same in Gregg's (albeit slightly larger) would have
>been nearer £5.
Was that contract, or PAYG(bble)? :-)
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> On the main street there was a Gregg's, another chain on the other side of
> the road and a very busy "Pound Bakeshop". I got a slice, a pie and
> sandwich for £2. The same in Gregg's (albeit slightly larger) would have
> been nearer £5.
A colleague got two sausage rolls for me from one of those Pound Bakeries. I
thought Gregg's stuff was **** until I ate them. Salt, grease, gristle and
little else. I've come to the conclusion that there is a minimum price for
products purporting to contain meat, below which it's really not a good idea
to go.
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"Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
news:afas59Fc93U1@mid.individual.net...
> ***'s going on ?
>
> Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been rebranded into
> an 'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door (A Greggs pie shop
> separates the two). The TM store seemed to me, to be being run down.
>
> However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a fully fledged
> EE store, identically shop fitted to the ex Orange store 15 feet away.
On 30/10/2012 20:38, Mark Carver wrote:
> ***'s going on ?
>
> Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been rebranded
> into an 'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door (A Greggs
> pie shop separates the two). The TM store seemed to me, to be being run
> down.
>
> However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a fully fledged
> EE store, identically shop fitted to the ex Orange store 15 feet away.
>
> Are they really going to keep both !!
>
They need both at the moment, because nothing has changed but the
facade. Last Saturday we tried to buy a specific phone in the EE (was
Orange) shop in Norwich. Took them about 10 mins to figure out they
hadn't got one in stock, but "Try the EE shop (old T-Mobile) next door
but one". Tried that, they had the right phone in stock, but had no idea
what the price was. So I legged it back to the (ex-Orange) shop to find
out the price. Armed with that we returned to the ex-T-Mobile shop. OK,
confirmed they could sell the phone on Orange (hang on, I thought it was
all EE now) - apparently the contracts etc are still Orange or T-Mobile.
Great, now we'd like to use the Orange phone fund and what discount will
you give us for a trade-in? Oh, we don't think we can deal with the
Orange phone fund, we haven't been trained on that. No attempt to make
the sale - which is weird because they are normally all over you like a
rash. It was all too difficult for them.
Tried another Ex-Orange shop in the town, no stocks of the phone we
wanted. He said try the ex-T-Mobile shop. We said they couldn't handle
the Orange phone fund - he reckoned that was cobblers.
Everything Everywhere? Nothing nowhere is more like it.
Aside from that, the EE branding is just awful - very imaginative grey
colour and the logo - well they obviously gave up on that!
Mind you, I had a similar experience years ago trying to buy a Motorola
V3 in silver on PAYG from the Orange shop. Oh no sir, we can only supply
that on contract - the PAYG phones are in black. But you have some
silver ones in stock? Yes, but for contract only. Surely you can bung a
PAYG sim into a silver phone and it will perform perfectly? Well, yes
sir, but we are only allowed to sell them on contract. So I went on to
Amazon and bought a silver V3 on PAYG FROM ORANGE!
"Biggles" <news@packaging.the-shillings.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
message news:k7h877$n7p$1@dont-email.me...
> On 30/10/2012 20:38, Mark Carver wrote:
>> ***'s going on ?
>>
>> Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been
>> rebranded
>> into an 'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door (A
>> Greggs
>> pie shop separates the two). The TM store seemed to me, to be
>> being run
>> down.
>>
>> However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a
>> fully fledged
>> EE store, identically shop fitted to the ex Orange store 15
>> feet away.
>>
>> Are they really going to keep both !!
>>
> They need both at the moment, because nothing has changed but
> the facade. Last Saturday we tried to buy a specific phone in
> the EE (was Orange) shop in Norwich. Took them about 10 mins to
> figure out they hadn't got one in stock, but "Try the EE shop
> (old T-Mobile) next door but one". Tried that, they had the
> right phone in stock, but had no idea what the price was. So I
> legged it back to the (ex-Orange) shop to find out the price.
> Armed with that we returned to the ex-T-Mobile shop. OK,
> confirmed they could sell the phone on Orange (hang on, I
> thought it was all EE now) - apparently the contracts etc are
> still Orange or T-Mobile. Great, now we'd like to use the
> Orange phone fund and what discount will you give us for a
> trade-in? Oh, we don't think we can deal with the Orange phone
> fund, we haven't been trained on that. No attempt to make the
> sale - which is weird because they are normally all over you
> like a rash. It was all too difficult for them.
>
> Tried another Ex-Orange shop in the town, no stocks of the
> phone we wanted. He said try the ex-T-Mobile shop. We said they
> couldn't handle the Orange phone fund - he reckoned that was
> cobblers.
>
> Everything Everywhere? Nothing nowhere is more like it.
>
> Aside from that, the EE branding is just awful - very
> imaginative grey colour and the logo - well they obviously gave
> up on that!
>
> Mind you, I had a similar experience years ago trying to buy a
> Motorola V3 in silver on PAYG from the Orange shop. Oh no sir,
> we can only supply that on contract - the PAYG phones are in
> black. But you have some silver ones in stock? Yes, but for
> contract only. Surely you can bung a PAYG sim into a silver
> phone and it will perform perfectly? Well, yes sir, but we are
> only allowed to sell them on contract. So I went on to Amazon
> and bought a silver V3 on PAYG FROM ORANGE!
>
I had similar with Vf and the Huawei Ascend G300. My local shop
inisited that it is only available on contract, whereas when I
phoned Vf they said it was/is only available on PAYG.
I bought one in Asda for 20% less than the Vf price in the end -
and a damn good phone it is as well.
"alexd" <troffasky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:k6uqta$k60$2@dont-email.me...
> R. Mark Clayton (for it is he) wrote:
>
>> On the main street there was a Gregg's, another chain on the other side
>> of
>> the road and a very busy "Pound Bakeshop". I got a slice, a pie and
>> sandwich for £2. The same in Gregg's (albeit slightly larger) would have
>> been nearer £5.
>
> A colleague got two sausage rolls for me from one of those Pound Bakeries.
> I
> thought Gregg's stuff was **** until I ate them. Salt, grease, gristle and
> little else. I've come to the conclusion that there is a minimum price for
> products purporting to contain meat, below which it's really not a good
> idea
> to go.
Min 12.5% meat. Sausage rolls are best avoided.
>
> --
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> 21:48:57 up 25 days, 11:09, 5 users, load average: 0.24, 0.35, 0.35
> Qua illic est reprehendit, illic est a vindicatum
>
I had exactly the same problem at a couple of EE shops in Birmingham today.
Muppets!!
"Biggles" wrote in message news:k7h877$n7p$1@dont-email.me...
On 30/10/2012 20:38, Mark Carver wrote:
> ***'s going on ?
>
> Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been rebranded
> into an 'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door (A Greggs
> pie shop separates the two). The TM store seemed to me, to be being run
> down.
>
> However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a fully fledged
> EE store, identically shop fitted to the ex Orange store 15 feet away.
>
> Are they really going to keep both !!
>
They need both at the moment, because nothing has changed but the
facade. Last Saturday we tried to buy a specific phone in the EE (was
Orange) shop in Norwich. Took them about 10 mins to figure out they
hadn't got one in stock, but "Try the EE shop (old T-Mobile) next door
but one". Tried that, they had the right phone in stock, but had no idea
what the price was. So I legged it back to the (ex-Orange) shop to find
out the price. Armed with that we returned to the ex-T-Mobile shop. OK,
confirmed they could sell the phone on Orange (hang on, I thought it was
all EE now) - apparently the contracts etc are still Orange or T-Mobile.
Great, now we'd like to use the Orange phone fund and what discount will
you give us for a trade-in? Oh, we don't think we can deal with the
Orange phone fund, we haven't been trained on that. No attempt to make
the sale - which is weird because they are normally all over you like a
rash. It was all too difficult for them.
Tried another Ex-Orange shop in the town, no stocks of the phone we
wanted. He said try the ex-T-Mobile shop. We said they couldn't handle
the Orange phone fund - he reckoned that was cobblers.
Everything Everywhere? Nothing nowhere is more like it.
Aside from that, the EE branding is just awful - very imaginative grey
colour and the logo - well they obviously gave up on that!
Mind you, I had a similar experience years ago trying to buy a Motorola
V3 in silver on PAYG from the Orange shop. Oh no sir, we can only supply
that on contract - the PAYG phones are in black. But you have some
silver ones in stock? Yes, but for contract only. Surely you can bung a
PAYG sim into a silver phone and it will perform perfectly? Well, yes
sir, but we are only allowed to sell them on contract. So I went on to
Amazon and bought a silver V3 on PAYG FROM ORANGE!
> Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been rebranded into an
> 'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door
> However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a fully fledged EE
> store
Noticed similar here today in Leicester ...
EE(orange) and EE(T-Mob) shops directly opposite each other on a
pedestrianised street, one of them hemmed-in by Vodafone and Three
shops, with Phones4U and O2 shops within a 50 yards.
Literally round the corner another Phones4U and CPW.
Then in a shopping centre a couple of hundred yards away, another pair
of EE(orange) and EE(T-Mob) shops and more Vodafone, Phones4U and O2 shops.
On 2012-11-13, Andy Burns <usenet.aug2009@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> Mark Carver wrote:
>
>> Last week I noticed the Orange store in our town, had been rebranded into an
>> 'EE' store. The T Mobile store is all but next door
>> However, today I walk past, and the TM Store is also now a fully fledged EE
>> store
>
> Noticed similar here today in Leicester ...
>
> EE(orange) and EE(T-Mob) shops directly opposite each other on a
> pedestrianised street, one of them hemmed-in by Vodafone and Three
> shops, with Phones4U and O2 shops within a 50 yards.
>
> Literally round the corner another Phones4U and CPW.
>
> Then in a shopping centre a couple of hundred yards away, another pair
> of EE(orange) and EE(T-Mob) shops and more Vodafone, Phones4U and O2 shops.
>
> Madness ...
By the time you've got there, the new handset you got down the road is
already obsolete, so you'll be thinking about replacing it.
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